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    "ocrText": "(Synopsis B, page 8)\npowers in the internal affairs of Korea. It is not true that the\nSoviet Government refused to take part in the meetings of the\nSecurity Council; however, much as it desires it, it was impossible\nfor the Soviet Government to take part in the meetings of the\nSecurity Council since by virtue of the attitude of the US Government,\nthe permanent member of the Security Council---China--- not\nadmitted to the Council, which made it impossible for the Security\nCouncil to take decisions which have legal force. \" US officials\nmade no comment on the Soviet reply.\nOn the 30th the Security Council met again at the request of the\nIndian representative who announced that India had decided to accede\nto the resolution of the Council. The Egyptian representative told\nthe Council that if he had participated in the voting on the 27th,\nhe would have abstained in conformity with instructions since\nreceived from his government.\nThe Security Council was then notified that 33 of the 59 member\nTRUMAR\nstates of the UN had notified Lie of their support for the Council\nen ARCHINES\nresolution.\nEs\nAlso on the 30th, HST, together with the ,cretaries of Defense and\nState, and the JCS, met with Congressional leaders and reviewed with\nthem the latest developments of the situation in Korea. After the\nmeeting a statement was issued which declared: \"The Congressional\nleaders were given a full review of the intensified military\nactivities. In keeping wi th the UN Security Council's request for\nsupport to the ROK in repelling the North Korean invaders and\nrestoring peace in Korea, the President announced that he had\nauthorized the US Air Force to conduct missions on specific military\ntargets in Northern Korea wherever militarily necessary, and had\nordered a Naval blockade of the entire Korean coast. General\nMacArthur has been authorized to use certain supporting ground\nunits.'\nUS answer to\nOn June 30 the State Department released a statement refuting the\ncharges of\nSoviet allegation, contained in notes to the US and to the UN on\nillegality\nJune 29, that the action of the Security Council with respect to\nKorea was illegal because it did not have the concurring votes of\nall the permanent members of the Council and because the Chinese\nparticipant in the action was not a representative of the Peiping\nregime. The statement said in part:\n\"With respect to Article 27 of the Charter dealing with Security\nCouncil voting, it is provided that substantive questions be decided\nby an affirmative vote of seven members including the concurring\nvotes of the permanent members. By a long series of precedents,\nhowever, dating back to 1946, the practice has been established\nwhereby abstention by permanent members of the Council does not\nconstitute a veto. In short, prior to the Soviet allegations, every\nmember of the UN, including the USSR, accepted as legal and binding\ndecisions of the Security Council made without the concurrence, as\nexpressed through an affirmative vote, of all permanent members of\nthe Council."
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